While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.